Slingshot: Beast, #5

By J.S. Veter

What has Dani been doing while her family slept?

 

Japheth wakes to find they are not on Hope.

Are they on the new planet? Or has Dani abandoned them all?

 

Has Hope's mission ended in failure?

 

The Beast series is HiLo, for middle-graders who want an exciting story, but need an easier read.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Shoestring House
• Release date: Feb 11, 2021
• ISBN: 9781989001073

J.S. Veter

J.S. Veter is the author of three novels and has published short stories in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Luna Station Quarterly, New Realm, and Seventh Star Press’ anthology Thunder on the Battlefield: Sword. Liked what you read? Please take a minute and leave a review at Amazon,  Goodreads or your favourite site? Reviews are food for an author's soul, and I read every review I get. The best way to support authors you enjoy (other than by reading their books!) is by sharing and reviewing. Thank you!

Book preview

A letter to parents, caregivers, and teachers:

My youngest son was diagnosed with dyslexia when he was 7. It was frightening at first, but we got a lot of support from his school and from a couple of fantastic Optometrists.

As his classmates progressed to chapter books my son grew increasingly frustrated with the primary books available to him because of his reading level. He felt self-conscious reading ‘baby books’ and found the stories boring.

No wonder. Dyslexics aren’t stupid. They don’t need easy stories. They need an easier read.

Where were the high-interest, low-vocabulary books for kids like my son?

They’re few and far between, let me tell you. It didn’t take long before he’d exhausted the local library. We looked online but what was available didn’t appeal to him. What could I do to help him?

Then I thought, You’re a writer, for goodness sake.

And I got to work.

You can find me at jessicaveter.com, on Twitter @jsveter or on Facebook at J.S. Veter, Author.

Copyright © 2021 by J.S. Veter

All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

ISBN 978-1-989001-07-3

Shoestring House Inc.

85 Creighton Road

Dundas, Ontario, Canada

L9H 3B7

www.shoestringhouse.ca

Cover Art: Sean Greenberg

Beast Series

Beast

Beast 2: Into Darkness

Beast 3: The Snake Cage

Beast 4: Course Correction

Beast 5: Slingshot

Available from online retailers or contact [e-mail]

Beast 5:

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Slingshot

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J.S. Veter

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For all of you.

You’ve come so far!

Underlined words are included in the Glossary at the back of this book.

Contents

The Story So Far

1. Japheth

2. Abbey

3. Ben

4. Japheth

5. Abbey

6. Dani

7. Japheth

8. Dani

9. Abbey

10. Dani

11. Ben

Glossary

The Story So Far

Between the stars, a creature the size of a moon swims. It eats photons and dust with its many mouths.

One day, the creature found a ship named Hope. Hope carried the last life from Earth to a new planet. The ship was damaged. Their cargo was dying.

Luckily, the creature could talk to one member of Hope’s crew. Her name is Dani, and she’s a synesthete. She sees emotions as colour. Dani named the creature Beast.

Beast wanted to help Dani. So, it swallowed her ship.

Beast offered to take Dani and her family to a new planet, but Hope’s batteries are running out of power. Without